Quelques incursions dans la zone occidentale du limes de Numidie

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ID19340720
AuthorsPierre Salama (0000-0002-3861-1961, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume27
Issue1
Pages93-105
Publication date1991-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntiquités africaines (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-4871 • E-ISSN: 2117-539X
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/antaf.1991.1190
OpenAlexW1992538882
LanguageFR
Citations received31

The research bears on three points : 1°) A roman fortress in building stones (at present destroyed) at Sidi Khaled (69 km South-West of Gemellae), that is to say on the most western point of the area studied by J. Baradez (Fossatum Africae) . 2°) A small fort built on the site of Medjdel (Gsell, AAA, XXXV, between 207 and 208), where formerly was found a fragment of inscription of a cohort bearing the date 149 a.d., under the emperor Antoninus Pius. But the sketch of this fort relates to typology of military stonework which is not anterior to the second half of the third century. It is therefore obvious that the fort of Antoninus Pius was rearranged after wards, or that the very site of Medjdel neekney several military constructions scattered over the times. 3°) A camp, sincer long known, but never described nor measured at Hamman Charef (Gsell, AAA, XL VI, 41). The general typology of this camp (related in Africa to those of Tocolosida, Sadouri, Gemellae, Ad Maiores, Remada,...), together with various fragments of epigraphy (one of them discovered 1970) alloys to suppose that it was also built under Antoninus Pius, in order to watch a traditional way of invasion, which, coming from the South-West, could trach the heart of Numidia

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Epigraphy · Fortress (chess) · Geography · Humanities · Typology · Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History · Archaeological and Historical Studies · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History

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